Extensions
Kotest integrates with many other libraries and frameworks. Some are provided by the Kotest team, and others are maintained and hosted by third parties.
Kotest Team Extensions​
| Project | Description |
|---|---|
| Spring | Adds support for spring beans in tests and spring test annotations |
| Ktor | Provides matchers for Ktor endpoints |
| Koin | Kotlin DI framework |
| Mockserver | Integrate mockserver HTTP servers with the test lifecycle |
| System | Provides utilities for integrating with System.* functions |
| Instant | Override the 'now' context in java.time |
| Test Containers | Run docker images as part of a test lifecycle |
| Wiremock | Provides a mock HTTP server. Project homepage here. |
| Allure | Provides output for the allure framework |
| JUnit XML | Provides output in the JUnit XML format for integration with reporting tools |
| HTML Reporter | Generates HTML reports of test results based on JUnit XML |
Third Party Extensions​
| Project | Description |
|---|---|
| Http4k | Functional toolkit for Kotlin HTTP applications |
| Micronaut | JVM-based, full-stack framework for building modular, easily testable microservice |
| Sniffy | Network connectivity testing |
| TestFiles | Creates organized files and directories for testing |
| Result4s | Result4s matchers |
| Kotless | Utilties for kotless and kotest |
| LogCapture | LogCapture is a testing library for asserting logging messages |
| KotlinFixture | generate well-defined, but essentially random, input |
| Fluentlenium | FluentLenium integration with Kotest |